Extractions: zOBT=" Ads" zGCID=" test1" zGCID+=" test9" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') z160=zpreC(160,600);z336=zpreC(336,280);z728=zpreC(728,90);z133=zpreC(336,133);zItw=160 Search over 1.4 million articles by over 600 experts Search var h2=document.getElementsByTagName("h2")[0];if(h2.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].firstChild.nodeValue.length>29)h2.className="long"; Home Education Classic Literature A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers R - Writers - Last Names Roth, Philip (1933- ) American writer. For his first published work, "Goodbye, Columbus" (1959), a collection of stories, Philip Roth won the 1960 National Book Award in fiction. The title story of the collection was made into a motion picture in 1969. Philip Roth Novels Philip Roth is a famous American author, known for works like "Columbus," "Portnoy," and other works. He's an award-winning writer, but his works have also inspired a great deal of controversy. Now, Roth joins the likes of Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty to become an American classic during his own lifetime. Read more about this collection. Bibliography Devotees of the award-winning American author may want to consult this complete list of his writings.

Extractions: Philip Roth Hailed as one of the best contemporary fiction writers in America, Philip Roth has focused his considerable gifts on recording the modern Jewish experience. A satirist with a keen sense of humor and biting sarcasm, Roth has been both acerbically denounced by the Jewish religious establishment for anti-Semitism and honored by the literary elite for these explorations. Roth attained celebrity at the age of 26 with the publication of his first book, Goodbye Columbus, a National Book Award winner that was later turned into a popular film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw. But it was with his fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, that both his fame and infamy were established. Called a "desperately dirty novel," Portnoy's Complaint depicts sexually explicit acts. The prepublication buzz about the book was so fierce that Roth earned close to a million dollars from magazine excerpts, long before the book itself hit the shelves. Roth's work is sometimes drawn so directly from his own life that the line between fiction and reality is fuzzy-a theme that he toys with in many of his novels. Of this, author Tobias Wolff says, "Roth's purpose in all this is not merely playful or cantankerous; what he means to do, and does, is make the strongest possible case for fiction's autonomy by suggesting and then repudiating its connection with 'the facts.' It's a nervy, sometimes hilarious, now and then exasperating performance; his road of excess doesn't always lead to the palace of wisdom. But often it does."

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Extractions: Search: Advanced Search User Name Remember Me? Password Home R Roth,_Philip AMERICAN PASTORAL Previous Next Philip Roth Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Merry grows up to be a terrorist bent on destroying her father's paradise. Review It Rate It Buy this book now

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